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• Abstaining and refraining
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• Avoiding action
• Becoming better
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• Competing and contending (non-sporting)
• Coping and not coping
• Delaying and wasting time
• Describing the leading position
• Efficient and effective
• Expressions telling people to hurry up
• Failing and doing badly
• Failures
• Getting involved for one's own benefit or against others' will
• Higher and lower points of achievement
• Hurrying and doing things quickly
• Making progress and advancing
• Making things better
• Performing a function
• Potential
• Reacting and responding
• Repeating an action
• Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
• Success and achievements
• Successful (things or people)
• Surpassing in quality or number
• Taking part and getting involved
• Trying and making an effort
• Unsuccessful (people and things)
• Waiting
• Ways of achieving things